(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the European Communities (Service of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (“the principal Regulations”).
Council Regulation (EC) No. 1348/2000 of 29th May 2000 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters O.J. No. L 160, 30.06.00, p.37 was repealed and replaced by Regulation (EC) No. 1393/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council (“the EC Service Regulation”).
These Regulations (regulation 2(4)) remove approved solicitors as a transmitting and receiving agency designated under Article 2 of the EC Service Regulation. The Regulations also update references to the EC Service Regulation in the principal Regulations.